Karnataka Tourism

Karnataka Travel & Tour

Karnataka, an ancient land having history of over 1,500 years provides a perfect opportunity to tourists to delve into age old architectural phenomenon. Tourists are bound to have an awesome experience while exploring world heritage structures, rock cut caves, wildlife surrounding and numerous tranquil beaches. Breathtaking natural beauty, spiritual chants and the smell of freshly brewed coffee are sure to mesmerize the tourists with some spectacular experience. Enjoy the diversity and rich culture and heritage of Karnataka with the Karnataka travel and tour package of Tour India, and have an intense experience of this wonderful world. Tour India is a trusted and reliable name among the leading tour operator that organized tour with difference of every part of India and its neighbouring countries.

Karnataka Tourism

Karnataka tourism boasts of unforgettable tourist delights in the form of incredible sculpted temples, majestic mountains, pleasant and enjoyable weather, amazing palaces, numerous alluring beaches, virgin tropical forests, happening cities and above all, its friendly people. Karnataka, the cosmopolitan city in the true sense is renowned for its westernized lifestyle and lively nightlife. Tour India offers an array of tour packages that will familiarize the tourists with the many untouched aspects of the Karnataka beauty in their travel to Karnataka. It is a land of myriad surprises and tourists are bound to be lost and engrossed in this mesmerizing city in their travel to Karnataka, right from musical pillars to monuments, to temples, to mosque, to stone dancers Karnataka has everything contributing majorly to the Karnataka tourism.

Karnataka Attractions

There are many exciting and interesting tourist places in Karnataka that tourists can explore in our tour to Karnataka. Tour India an esteemed tour operator of India provides splendid opportunity of exploring Bangalore and other major attractions of Bangalore. Some of the major attractions of Karnataka include:

Bangalore

Bangalore, renowned as garden city is popular among the tourists, who plan Bangalore tour for its numerous gardens surrounded by natural scenery. This astonishing city is also called Mecca of Software Professionals giving it the status of 'The Silicon Valley of India'. Tourists on their tour to Bangalore can explore magnificent fort and palaces, marvellous architectural n the form of historical buildings and temples and various lakes within the city. Bangalore Tourism boasts of several tourist attractions such as Vidhan Soudha, a hallmark in architecture, Venkataramanaswamy Temple, the Gavi Gangadhareswara cave temple, and the Someshwara Temple, Cubbon Park, and the Lal Bagh botanical garden is a collection of the rare floral species and also a venue for a number of flower shows. Tour India provides unique experience to tourist in their Bangalore tour, which is hard to discover in any other tour packages offered by other tour operators of Bangalore.

Best Season: Throughout the year (Sep. to March is the best time).

Places Of Interest:
Aquarium, Bull Temple, Fort & Tippu's Palace, Ulsoor Lake, Lal Bagh, Venkatappa Art Gallery, Cubbon Park, Vidhana Soudha, Vishveswaraya Industrial & Technological Museum.

Excursions:
Bannerghat National Park- 21 kms, Nandi Hills-60 kms, White Field (Kadugodi)- 16 kms, Kolar Gold Fields- 98 kms, Ramohalli- 25 kms, Sati Subramanya- 52 kms, Mysore- 140 kms, Kaivara (Temples of Pandavas)- 79 kms.

Reach -
By Air: Linked with Calcutta, Delhi, Madras, Bombay, Pune, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Goa, Hyderabad, Calicut and Trivandrum.
By Rail: Directly connected with Ahmedabad, Bombay, Calcutta, Cochin, Delhi, Guwahati, Howrah, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Madras, Mysore, Nagpur, Trivandrum, Vasco-da-Gama (Goa).
By Rail: Directly connected with Ahmedabad, Bombay, Calcutta, Cochin, Delhi, Guwahati, Howrah, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Madras, Mysore, Nagpur, Trivandrum, Vasco-da-Gama (Goa).
By Road: Bandipur- 220 kms, Belur- 322 kms, Madras- 334 kms, Bombay- 998 kms, Cochin- 526 kms, Dandeli- 481 kms, Halebid- 214 kms, Jog Falls- 377 kms, Kodaikanal- 430 kms, Mysore- 140 kms, Panaji- 595 kms, Sravanabelagola- 160 kms, Tirupati- 250 kms.

Belur - Halebid

Belur is famous for the Chennakesava Temple built in the Hoysala style. Started in 1116 AD it took 103 years to complete this temple. The temple commemorates the victory of Hoysala over the Cholas in the great battle of Talakad. The temple is intricately carved with sculptures, friezes & pillars.

Altitude: 968 meters, Temperature: (deg C) Summer- Max. 34, Min. 20. Winter- Max. 28, Min. 14., Rainfall: 86 cms. (June to October), Best Season: Throughout the year.

Places Of Interest:
Chenakesava Temple, Veernarayan Temple, Kappe Chennigaraya Temple.

Excursions:
Halebid- 16 kms, Sravanabelagola- 86 kms, Gorur- 61 kms.

Reach -
By Air: The nearest airport Mangalore- 154 kms is connected to Bangalore, Bombay and Madras.
By Rail: Nearest railhead Hassan- 37 kms is connected to Mangalore.
By Road: Bangalore- 222 kms, Halebid- 16 km, Hassan- 37 kms, Mangalore- 154 kms, Mysore- 155 kms, Shravanabelagola- 86 kms, Belur- 91 kms, Halebid- 117 kms.

Mysore

Tour India Mysore tour rejuvenates the tourists with a fresh bit of energy and dynamism and helps them to hoard wide gamut of knowledge about South Indian history. Some of the most striking tourist destination of Mysore which are treasured by the tourists in their tour to Mysore include Brindavan garden, Mysore Palace, Jaaganmohan Art Gallery and Chamundi Hills.

Hotels:

Deluxe – Lalitha Mahal Palace, Rajendra Vilas Palace. Krishnarajasagar Hotel.

Standard – Metropole, Dasaprakash Paradise.

Excursions:
Somnathpur- 40 kms, Sravanabelgola- 99 kms, Belur- 91 kms, Halebid- 117 kms.

Reach -
By Air: The nearest Airport is Bangalore.
By Road: 140 kms from Bangalore.

Badami

Badami, the one time capital of the Chalukyas, is noted for several temples, some structural and others rock-cut, of the sixth-seventh century A.D.

Area: 10.3 sq.km., Altitude: 176.7 mts., Temperature: (deg C) Summer- Max. 38, Min. 23. Winter- Max. 29, Min. 15., Rainfall: 50 cms., Best Season: October to March.

Places Of Interest:
Badami Caves, Badami Fort, Sculpture Gallery.

Excursions:
Aihole- 44 kms, Banashankari Temple- 50 kms, Guledgud- 24 kms, Lakkundi- 82 kms, Mahakuta- 14 kms, Naganath Temple- 10 kms, Pattadakal- 22 kms, Kada Siddeswara Temple, Jambulinga Temple, Galaganatha Temple, Sanghameswara Temple, Mallikarjuna Temple, Virupaksha Temple, Papanatha Temple, Jain Temple, Shivayoga, Mandira- 11 kms, Pattadakal.

Reach -
By Air: The nearest airport Belgaum- 192 kms is connected to Bombay.
By Rail: Nearest railhead Badami.
By Road: Connected to important places in the south.

Aihole

It is historically famous as the cradle of the Hindu temple architecture. There are almost 125 temples divided into 22 groups scattered all over the village.

Area: 4 sq. km., Altitude: 593 meters., Temperature: (deg C) Summer Mean Max. 41 deg. Mean Min 28 deg. Winter Mean Max 31 deg. Mean Min 20 deg., Rainfall:58.4 cms., Best Season: October to March.

Places of Interest: Durga Temple, Ladh Khan Temple, Gowda Temple, Suryanarayan Temple Konti Group of Temples, Hucchimalli Temple, Meguti Temple, Ravanphadi Cave.

Excursions: Badami- 44 kms, Koodalasangama- 45 kms, Pattadakal- 22 kms.

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By Air: The nearest airport is Belgaum - 189 kms.
By Rail: The nearest railhead is Bagalkot- 34 kms.
By Rail: Badami- 44 kms, Aminagad- 10 kms, Bagalkot- 34 kms, Bangalore- 510 kms, Bijapur- 135 kms, Pattadakal- 22 kms.

Hampi

Tour of Hampi encompasses of multitude of tourist attractions such as sacred temples, magnificent palaces and other royal structures. Major tourists' attractions of Hampi that are must visited by tourists on their tour to Hampi include Virupaksha Temple, King's Balance, Lotus Mahal and Vithala Temple.

Temperature: (deg C) Summer- Max. 41, Min. 37. Winter- Max. 27, Min. 24., Best Season: October to March.

Places of Interest: Virupaksha Temple, Monolithic Ganeshas, Krishna Temple, Monolithic Narsimha, Hazara Rama Temple, Elephant Stables, Zenana Enclosures, Royal Performance Zone, Royal Residences, Quieen's Bath, Vittala Temple, Achyuta Raya Temple, Kodandarama Temple.

Excursions: Tungabhadra Dam-17 kms.

Reach -
By Air: The nearest airport is Bellary- 77 kms, Belgaum- 259 kms, Bangalore- 353 kms.
By Rail: The nearest railhead is Hospet- 13 kms which is connected to Bangalore, Hubli and Guntakal.
By Rail: Connected to Aihole- 156 kms, Badami- 189 kms, Bangalore- 353 kms, Bellary- 77 kms, Bidar- 379 kms, Bijapur- 254 kms, Hungund Gadag- 91 kms, Gulbarga- 264 kms, Guntakal- 133 kms, Hassan- 335 kms, Hospet- 13 kms, Hubli- 154 kms, Hyderabad- 416 kms, Mysore- 366 kms, Raichur- 194 kms.

Nagarhole National Park

The name Nagarhole is derived from the Kannada `Naga' meaning `snake' and `Hole' meaning `streams'. A number of streams snake through the rich tropical forests of Nagarhole which is situated in picturesque districts of Kodagu and Mysore in Southern Karnataka.

Area: 572.90 sq.km. Altitude: 800-850 meters, Temperature: (deg C) Max. 33 Deg.C. Min. 14 Deg.C., Rainfall: 1300 - 1800 mm. (June to September), Best Season: September to May.

Places Of Interest:

Forest Types:
Southern tropical semi-evergreen forests. Southern tropical dry deciduous forests. Southern tropical moist mixed deciduous forests. Scrub forests. Lush, green, grassy swamps.

Fauna:
Lots of animals and birds.

Excursions:
Bandipur National Park- 100 kms, Madikeri- 93 kms, Mysore- 96 kms.

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By Air: The nearest airport is Mysore- 96 kms, Bangalore- 236 kms.
By Air: The nearest airport is Mysore- 96 kms, Bangalore- 236 kms.
By Road: Bangalore- 236 kms, Madikeri- 93 kms, Mysore- 96 kms.

Bandipur National Park

The Moyer River forms a natural boundary between the Mudumalain Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamilnadu and the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka. Nestling at the foothills of the Nilgiris, the Bandipur National Park was formed by extending the Venugopal Wildlife Park which was set up in 1931 by the Mysore Maharajas. A popular game resort of the rulers of Mysore, the flora in the forest comprises of teak, rosewood, honne, mathi, bamboo, sandal trees. The important animals in the park are the tiger, elephant, gaur, leopard, chital, samber, etc. Birds like the pea fowl, partrige, quail, hornbill, Ibis, etc., are also found here. The Bandipur National Park is one of the fifteen Tiger Reserves in the country, launched under the Project Tiger scheme during 1973.

Area: 874 sq.kms., Altitude: 780 to 1454.5 meters, Temperature: (deg C)-Maximum 29 Deg. Minimum 17 Deg., Rainfall: 1000 mm., Best Season: May to June & September to November.

Places Of Interest:

Forest Types:
Southern Tropical Moist-mixed deciduous forests, Southern Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests, Scrub Forests. Flora Forests consists predominantly of teak (tectona grandis) with its main associate species like rosewood.

Fauna:
Lots of wild animals tiger, elephant, deer, wild boar etc.,

Excursions:
Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary- 19 kms, Mysore- 80 kms, Udhagamandalam (Ootacamund)- 79 kms, Gopalaswamy Hills- 20 kms.

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By Air: Nearest airport is Mysore- 80 kms.
By Rail: Nearest railhead is Mysore- 80 kms.
By Road: Bangalore- 220 kms, Coimbatore- 168 kms, Mysore- 80 kms. Udhagmandalam ( Ooty)- 79 kms.